PANORAMA OF KILLARNEY.
Lovely as fame reports it, the Lake of Killarney will break upon the visitor to Burford's Panorama with surprise, for its exceeding beauty. Certainly few places in the world can vie with it. The view combines. the beauties of closed bays and woodland nooks with abroad expanse ; the hills are mountainous enough to be grand, and yet subside so softly into the gentle curve of the valley where it melts with the water, that the har- mony of loveliness is continued throughout, from the silent waters to the skies. Around the lake are villages and a few mansions, which look pic- turesque in the distance. The painting is taken from Ross Castle, and the ruined walls of its square tower form the immediate foreground. This point commands the " lower " lake, the most beautiful of the three sections into which the waters are divided : it is intersected by several leafy islands.
The artist has admirably transferred the natural panorama to his can- vass. It is as forcible in relief as any that we have seen in the same rooms, and as delicate. Its vigorous foreground cheats the sense : its de- licately-touched and long-drawn distance invites the use of the opera- glass. The general air of smiling repose peculiarly suits the scene for a summer panorama. On the whole, if -other exhibitions of this kind have been more novel or striking, not one, we think, has been more thoroughly pleasing.
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